Just noticed last night in Time Out NY that Liz Phair is playing the Bowery Ballroom on 8/10. Apparently, tickets ($20) went on sale a few days ago, but the show is already sold out. Just called the box office (Mercury Lounge) and confirmed this. 🙁

But now, Donald Rumsfeld, the Defence Secretary and one of the leading hawks on Iraq, has admitted that the weapons may not exist. "We don't know what happened," he told the Council of Foreign Relations in New York. "It is also possible that [Saddam's government] decided they would destroy them prior to a conflict."

Ebay program turns airline points into pennies. What a sweet idea. Current exchange rate on points.com is 72 Ebay Anything Points per 100 AAdvantage miles. Admittedly, 0.7/mile is a bit low, but AA miles are almost worthless to me anyways. Now I don't feel quite so silly about collecting all of those Kellogg's cereal box certificates...

In an agreement finalized over the last week, Senator Orrin G. Hatch, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, dropped his effort to extend provisions of the 2001 legislation, the Patriot Act, whose broad powers to investigate and track terrorist suspects are scheduled to expire in 2005.

New toy! My Sipix StyleCam Blink II digital camera arrived from Amazon. The instructions warn that using rechargeable batteries will damage the camera, which doesn't make me too happy. In any case, it's super-tiny and fun to play with. Not bad at all for $35.

Finally got file and printer sharing working between XP and Win98 (crossover cable connection). No messing with NetBIOS or Browser Master settings. The problem pretty much boiled down to the AutoLogon registry setting. When I either logoff and logon or disable the registry setting, everything works fine. No cryptic "unable to browse the network" message when I open Network Neighborhood.